Painting’s Point Man

Albert Oehlen at the New Museum.

Oehlen’s “Born to Be Late” (2001). No unity of composition, but unremitting energy.

Courtesy Galleria Alfonso Artiaco, Naples

The German artist Albert Oehlen is the foremost painter of the era that has seen painting decline as the chief medium of new art. It’s a dethronement that he honestly registers and oddly celebrates, as can be seen in “Home and Garden,” at the New Museum. The first New York museum show for the sixty-year-old

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